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Overview

The MDP2HDVGA Mini DisplayPort™ travel adapter lets you connect your mDP enabled Ultrabook™ or laptop computer to any VGA or HDMI® display. The sleek adapter features an all-white design that looks great when interfaced with your MacBook Pro® or MacBook Air®.

Connect to any HDMI or VGA Display

Why carry multiple adapters when you only need one? Instead of keeping two different adapters on-hand, the mDP travel adapter offers both VGA and HDMI outputs, so you’ll be able to connect from your laptop to any modern boardroom or classroom display -- an ideal plug-and-play solution for BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) applications at the office.

Plus, because the converter supports video resolutions up to 1920x1200 or 1080p you can convert a Mini DisplayPort video source to HDMI or VGA without sacrificing video quality.

Maximize portability

The travel A/V adapter maximizes portability with a small footprint and lightweight design. The convenient design ensures the adapter is as portable as your laptop, fitting easily into your laptop bag or carrying case and eliminates the need to carry more than one adapter. With this adapter you can walk into virtually any boardroom ready to present, making a great first impression, and saving you the embarrassment of having to rummage through your bag looking for the right connector.

The 2-in-1 converter is compatible with the Intel Thunderbolt port on your Mac or PC and installs easily with no software or drivers required.

The MDP2HDVGAW is backed by a 2-year StarTech.com warranty and free lifetime technical support.

The StarTech.com Advantage

2-in-1 design lets you connect to any HDMI or VGA display using a single adapter

Maximize portability with a compact, lightweight adapter

Looks great next to your Mac, with a sleek white design

Applications

Keep the adapter with you while traveling, to connect to virtually any display you come across

Connect your BYOD laptop/Ultrabook to a provided HDMI, or VGA display at work

Connect a VGA, or HDMI display to your Mini DisplayPort laptop, to use as a secondary monitor

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Frequently Asked Questions

Before You Buy

When you convert video from a source that uses DisplayPort or Mini DisplayPort to DVI or HDMI (for example, a computer to a monitor), you will need to consider the difference between passive and active adapters.

If the source supports dual-mode DisplayPort (also known as DP++), then you can use a passive adapter because the source can perform the conversion. If the source does not support DP++, then you need to use an active converter, which includes additional chips to perform the conversion.

Thunderbolt ports support DP++ natively. To run multiple monitors from the same computer, refer to the Active Adapters section below.

Passive Adapters

Passive adapters are less expensive since they do not need to include additional chips. A quick way to check whether you can use a passive adapter is to see if the DisplayPort or Mini DisplayPort source has the DP++ symbol above it. The symbol is a D with a P inside of it, with two + signs to the left, one on top of the other.

Active Adapters

Active adapters use additional chips to make the conversion inside the adapter, regardless of whether the source supports DP++. This means that active adapters are more expensive than passive adapters.

If you want to use multiple monitors with the same computer, you should use an active adapter because some video cards cannot run the maximum number of monitors while using DP++. This is especially true if the computer has more than one DisplayPort or Mini DisplayPort connection. Check with your video card manufacturer to confirm which type of adapter you need for the setup that you would like to run.

Note: You should use passive adapters with StarTech.com MST hubs, except when you are converting from DisplayPort to VGA, since that type of conversion requires active adapters. For more information on using adapters with StarTech.com MST hubs, refer to the following FAQ: http://www.startech.com/faq/mst_hubs_passive_vs_active_adapters.

Surface Dock

If you experience issues when you connect passive video signal adapters to the Surface Dock, Microsoft recommends that you use active video signal converters instead. StarTech.com offers an active video signal converter for DVI monitors (MDP2DVIS) and for HDMI monitors (MDP2HD4KS).

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Troubleshooting

When you troubleshoot issues with a video adapter, there are some quick tests that you can complete to rule out potential problems. You can test to make sure that the following components are working correctly and are not the source of the issue:

Video cables

Video adapter

Video source (such as a DVD player or computer)

Video destination (such as a monitor or projector)

To test your setup components, try the following:

Use the cable, video adapter, video source, and video destination in another setup to see if the problem is with the components or the setup.

Use a different cable, video adapter, video source, and video destination in your setup to see if the problem persists. Ideally, you should test a component that you know works in another setup.

When you test your cables, it is recommended that you do the following:

Test each cable individually.

Use short cables when you are testing.

When you test the video source and video destination, it is recommended that you do the following:

Remove the video adapter from your setup and test to make sure that the video source and video destination work together without the video adapter.

Test to make sure that the video source and video destination work together at the resolution that you want to use.

Note: In order for your setup to work properly, the video source, adapter, and destination all need to support the resolution that you are using.